Luis Gutierrez

For Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, the border between the U.S. and Mexico was more like a revolving door. He was deported in 1994, 1997, 1998, 2003 and 2009. He should have been deported again earlier this year, after he finished his third prison sentence for illegal re-entry. Instead, he was turned over to the San Francisco sheriff, who let him go. On July 1, he allegedly shot and killed 32-year-old Kate Steinle as she walked along a pier with her father. What went wrong? We'll get to that in a minute. But taking money away from local police departments isn't the way to prevent it from happening again. That's the solution proposed by Republicans in Congress. They blame...

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